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The YA Lit Winners and Honorees Announced for the 2014 Street Literature Book Awards
The news is out! The 2014 Street Literature Book Award winner in the YA lit category is the series “Hip Hop Biographies,” published by Saddleback Educational Publishing.
The "Hip Hop Biographies" series won the 2014 Street Lit Book Award Medal in YA Literature.
The 2014 Street Literature Book Award Medal (SBLAM) Winners and Honorees for urban fiction have been announced. The books were nominated “based on popularity of books as read by the public in school, academic, and public library settings. In other words, the SLBAM honors what street lit readers are reading and deeming as their best authors and titles for the 2013 publication year,” according to the online press release. The winner in the Young Adult literature category is the series “Hip Hop Biographies,” published by Saddleback Educational Publishing. Young Adult Literature honorees in fiction and nonfiction include:- Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith by Gabrielle Douglas and Michelle Burdord (Zonderkidz)
- Way too Much Drama by Earl Sewell (Harlequin Teen)
- Butterfly: A Novel by Sylvester Stephens (Strebor Books)
K.C. Boyd, a library media specialist at the Wendell Phillips Academy High School in Chicago, IL, and blogger at The Audacious Librarian. Marvin DeBose, Sr., an adult/teen librarian with the Free Library of Philadelphia. DeBose manages the largest street lit public library collection in Philadelphia, runs a teen street lit book club, and blogs at Mr.Philly Librarian. D.L. Grant, Jr., an assistant branch manager with the San Antonio Public Library System and doctoral candidate in English. Patrice Grimball-Smith, a librarian assistant in young adult services for the Charleston County (SC) Public Library System and president of the Readers in Motion Bookclub. Vanessa Irvin Morris, a librarian with over 25 years of experience who also established the awards. Morris is the author of the Street Literature blog and The Readers Advisory Guide to Street Literature (ALA Publications, 2011).
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